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Transport & Mobility Conflict www.alpine-region.eu © Permanent Secretariat of the Alpine Convention 2ND THEMATIC POLICY AREA “MOBILITY AND CONNECTIVITY” TRANSPORT & MOBILITY CONFLICT MAP Activity of the EUSALP Action Group 4 Mobility 80 million people, 7 countries, 48 regions, mountains and plains addressing together common challenges and opportunities Road traffic / © Hannes Schlosser, Alpine Convention Alps as recreation area / © Alessandro Cristofoletti, Alpine Convention THE ALPINE REGION: A SENSITIVE AREA UNDER HIGH TRANSPORT PRESSURE The Alps are an extremely sensitive environment located in EUSALP Action the heart of the European continent. Special geographical Group 4 Mobility (AG4) features cause particular constraints regarding connectivity, accessibility and transport infrastructure. Transport is one of To promote inter-modality and interoperability the main causes of climate change – almost thirty percent in passenger and freight transport. of all greenhouse gases in the Alps can be attributed to The AG4 offers a platform to coordinate and harmonise transport – and both passenger and freight traffic volumes the activities of Alpine regions and countries for a sustain- are rising continuously. Road transport in particular causes able transport and mobility system. Its mission is to build a negative externalities such as air pollution, noise and traffic common understanding of transport policy and mobility, to congestion. This makes mobility one of the biggest define common objectives and to launch specific activities challenges for the social, economic and ecological and projects. development of the Alpine regions. A coordinated approach giving way to a coherent strategy is re- In order to address the most important challenges and quired to tackle these challenges in order to ensure a opportunities concerning mobility in the Alpine Region, the sustainable development for the Alps. AG4 works towards the following objectives: › To promote inter-modality and interoperability in pas- The Vienna Declaration of the UNECE Conference on senger and freight transport in particular by removing Transport and the Environment (Vienna 1997) defined infrastructure bottlenecks, bridging missing links, mod- “sensitive areas” as a field of action requiring sus- ernizing infrastructure as well as coordinating timetables tainable transport development. Sensitive areas are and interconnecting transport information. valuable for different reasons. These areas include rare › To support modal shift from road to rail. In order to tackle landscapes and habitats, unspoiled areas, intact cultural environmental and social challenges caused by exces- historic landscapes and nature protection zones. These sive traffic flows of freight and passenger transport the areas are valuable because of their material advantag- AG4 promotes the harmonization and implementation of es, such as contribution to the purification of water and modal shift policies with a focus on toll systems. air, maintain biodiversity, protection against dangers, › To develop cooperation and greater integration between alleviation of climatic impacts, like for example floods etc. the existing bodies and structures in the field of trans- There are also non-material benefits, for example stress port to avoid duplications of work and to encourage the reduction, leisure time recreation and enjoyment of alignment of funding. Strong links have already been es- nature, sense of identity and home, etc. for the individual tablished with the Alpine Convention, the Suivi de Zurich and society as a whole (T&E 2005). The Alpine Region Process, as well as the iMONITRAF! Network. and their traffic corridors of international relevance are sensitive areas regarding all kind of traffic ›› EUSALP Action Group 4 Mobility (AG4) emissions. Europa Bridge / © Rosel Eckstein_pixelio.de EUSALP TRANSPORT & MOBILITY CONFLICT MAP The aim of the CONFLICT MAP is to identify the most impor- and civil society organizations were invited to bring forward tant challenges and conflicts of transport and mobility in the concrete examples of conflicts and measures in the field of Alpine Region and to visualize them by means of concrete transport and mobility in their region/state. Based on these examples. The development of the CONFLICT MAP is part inputs, nine core topics were identified. Amongst them: air of the activity on public acceptance of modal shift of the and noise pollution, the impact of transport infrastructure AG4 Work Plan and pursues the aim of informing the wider on landscape and nature, connectivity and accessibility, public about the complexity and importance of the topic on increasing transport volumes leading to congestion, sustain- transport and mobility in the Alpine Region. able transport infrastructure, social conflicts caused by the lack of stakeholder involvement, traffic caused by tourism in In order to identify the main challenges and conflicts related the Alpine Region as well as common measures to support to transport and mobility in the Alpine Region, the members modal shift. of the AG4, amongst them representatives of regional and national public administrations, as well as stakeholders # # # AIRQUALITY CONNECT AVOIDING SENSITIVEALPS THEALPS SOCIALCONFLICTS # # # NOISEREDUCTION LIMITINGTRAFFIC TOURISM TRADE-OFFS PEAKS TRAFFIC # # # BALANCING SUSTAINABLE ACCEPTANCE NATURE&LANDSCAPE INFRASTRUCTURES COMMONMEASURES The CONFLICT MAP is an interactive tool which can be the regional and national borders to tackle these issues. further developed to include additional examples brought Moreover, the visualization of the conflicts and challenges forward by stakeholders and interested parties in the Alpine provides an insight into the complexity of the topic which Region. A comprehensive map allows the AG4 to identify lies mainly in the difficulty to find the right balance between shared conflicts and challenges along different areas of the sustainable social, economic and ecological development of Alpine territory and to develop a common approach beyond the Alpine Region, part of the role of the AG4. # AIRQUALITY SENSITIVEALPS Why the Alpine Environment faces over-propor- tional impacts from traffic-induced air pollution. The Alpine Region is located at major cles per year in 1990 to over 5.5 mio. ical features (e.g. altitude, inversion European crossroads linking Europe vehicles per year in 2010. effect). Thus, some regions in the Alps from South to North and from East Although vehicle technology has face similar air quality problems as to West. With globalisation and an improved significantly in the same pe- major urban areas, however with an increased European integration, riod, these increasing traffic volumes additional challenge: they do not only traffic volumes through the Alps have lead to severe air pollution in the Alps. have to consider the well-being of their increased considerably over the last This is due to the high sensitivity of the citizens but also face the challenge to 20 years. In freight transport only, the Alpine environment: one truck cross- maintain a good environmental quality five major trans-Alpine transit corridors ing the Alps has the same impact as as a main feature for Alpine tourism. have seen an increase by over 70% three trucks in a “flat” area, due to from about 3 Mio. heavy goods vehi- specific topographic and meteorolog- Here you can download the technical data sheet South Tyrol: How to find a balance between accessibility and good air quality South Tyrol is located along the Brenner corridor and is crossed by both the Brenner Tyrol: Drastic air pollution requires drastic measures motorway as well as an international railway line Air quality limits as set by relevant EU legislation have been from North to South. With respect to passenger exceeded in the lower Inn valley over the last years. Despite transport, the region profits from this good ac- a downward trend due to counter measures imposed by the cessibility as tourists can easily reach the popu- Land of Tyrol (permanent speed limit for all vehicles of 100 lar tourism regions of South Tyrol as well as the km/h since 2014 and a sectoral driving ban for polluting HGV city of Bolzano by car. On the other hand, the since November 2016) Vomp remains the measuring station high concentration of road and rail traffic in the with the highest levels of NO2 in Austria. Challenges remain main valley lead to high air pollution; monitoring to improve air quality, and residents and interest groups stations in South Tyrol have measured some of in the Inn valley demand stricter measures to reduce the the highest levels in the overall Alpine Region. number of HGV on the roads. An effective reduction of HGV will however only be possible through common actions of ›› see conflict #TourismTraffic all Alpine transit regions and the harmonisation of relevant measures has thus become one major objective for the EUSALP Action Group on mobility. Grenoble/Chamonix: Heavy air pollution ›› see conflict #CommonMeasures Since 2016 repeated severe air pollution was measured in both locations, caused by industri- al activity and wood heating as well as traffic. In the long term, pollutant emissions (even if they are invisible) have significant consequences for nature and mankind. # NOISEREDUCTION TRADE-OFFS A future-proof Alpine mobility depends on effective noise reduction. Increasing freight and passenger titude regions. While modal shift from increase in rail freight volumes needs transport volumes on road and rail lead road to rail is a very effective policy
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